"A myth is something that never happened but is always happening" - Tom Robbins https://t.co/JNcQcj00BS
"A myth is something that never happened but is always happening" - Tom Robbins https://t.co/JNcQcj00BS
Myths are an essential part of this ‘making of humans’ — they contextualise our existence and give us psychological coherence.
Alexander Beiner • Traversing the Underworld: What Myth can Teach us During the Pandemic
“myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter” - Maya Deren
After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of ‘truth’, and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear.
Christopher Tolkien • The Silmarillion
Many religious myths reflect a culture’s intuitive apprehension of transcendent aspects of reality. They aren’t merely roundabout ways to refer to something literal, but the most direct and accurate utterance of transcendent truths. A religious myth is symbolic—never literal—because it emerges from the obfuscated mind.